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(soft music)

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(man singing in
aboriginal language)

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I believe that this
is a burying ground here.

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Yeah.

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(children speaking
aboriginal language)

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(child speaking)

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Plant your fruit trees,

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eat and drink from it.

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You don\'t make much money,

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but you can eat and drink
from your trees. Mm-hmm.

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Not anywhere else
can you have this freedom,

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what I think we have right now.

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(soft music)

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(child speaking)

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(music)

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(soft music)

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(woman calling out in distance)

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- Elisha! Melanie!

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- I have 15 children.

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Gabriel, Feliciano.

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He\'s a newbie student.

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He likes to eat rice.

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- Nalita...

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Anthony...

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Priscilla, Edgar,

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Suzanna, Janella,

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Elisha, Melanie.

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- Fifth, this little one.

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- Five!

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- Sixth, that one there,

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I always name him Six.
- Edgar...

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(laughing)

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No, it\'s Eli,

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and Omar and Jadiel.

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I made a mistake.

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(rooster crowing)

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(music)

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- Seven days.

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Now we use this
to sell this product

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and we gain income in exchange.

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Okay.

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Thanks.

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(hammering)

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This is my house.

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It\'s a combination
of both my cultural home,

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along with modern technology...

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and materials.

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It\'s definitely a metaphor
in cultural balancing,

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because at the end of the day
we want comfort,

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and you\'ll get comfort
if you work hard for it.

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That\'s Junior.

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Luis Armando Jr.

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Took my name.

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I don\'t intend
to have many children.

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Just one: Junior.

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They cost a lot to raise.

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And you need
to work hard for them.

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Ah...

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I can cook,
I can bubble a pot of rice,

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I can cook noodles.
I could do other things,

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but my father
can do none of those.

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So it\'s changing and that\'s
what we have to realize,

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as young people.
And the important thing is that,

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our elders have to realize
that it\'s changing.

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(soft music)

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(baby gurgling)
Hey.

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(making motor sound)

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I get up early this morning,

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and I start to shout
for this gentleman here:

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\"Hey, hey,
give me a hand today!\"

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He said, \"Okay,\" so I go again.

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- More and more foreigners

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keep purchasing land
from the government.

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Foreigners know,
have the finance,

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they easily get the land.

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There they have an advantage
over the Mayan people.

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Alright, cool.

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The Dolores community have
a big problem at the moment.

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Their problem
is that the private landowner,

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a group of proprietors,

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they\'re claiming that the land
where Dolores is located

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belongs to them.

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Now, as an association,

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we\'ve invested thousands
of dollars into the community,

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ensuring that the farmers

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have the appropriate skills.

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We provided materials,
bags, seeds, seedlings.

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That amounts to a lot of money.

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(background chatter)

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So, uh...

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what we\'re here to do

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is to give words
of encouragement

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for the farmers to continue
doing what they\'re doing

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in their farming,
particularly the cacao industry,

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because we have a market.
We are there as an association

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to provide technical service
to the people.

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We received a letter,

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from the village,
requesting support,

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how they could address
this problem

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because this is an
established community already.

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One of the problems
that we\'re trying to...

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the reason why we support
subsistence farming,

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is that we don\'t want
for them to end up

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like how our farmers are
facing up in Africa, Madagascar.

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I\'m sure you know about that.

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Where you have this huge
millionaire from America

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buy a bunch of lands in Africa

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and let the people
work their ass,

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working the land
and don\'t get in return.

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Just work, work, work, work,
and the big guys stay on top.

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That\'s what we want...

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We are going to make sure
that that doesn\'t happen.

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- No, no, no.
You need to listen, alright?

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Because I\'m listening to you,

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and I understand what\'s going on
with helping the people.

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I do the same.

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My family\'s done the same
for years, okay?

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There\'s way more than 2,000
acres being used by the Indians.

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Okay?
- Mayas.

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- Alright? And I\'m paying taxes
for this whole property.

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And I have no rights
to my own property?

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- That\'s ridiculous.
- That\'s ridiculous.

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If you guys wanna do something
for these people,

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purchase this property from me.

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- On a daily basis,

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we are faced
with foreign investors

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buying our lands, not from us,

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but from the state of Belize.

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On a daily basis,

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we are faced with the attitude
of the government

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that treats our land

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as vacant lands,

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treating these forests
that we live in

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as if we weren\'t there.

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(music)

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(woman speaking
aboriginal language)

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In our Mayan communities,

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we have been described,
time and time again,

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as the poorest of the poor.

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In the definition
of the Western way

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of defining poverty...

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we are, in fact, cash poor.

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But we\'re not poor,

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we\'re not impoverished people.

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We have learned how to survive
by helping each other,

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by being loyal to each other,

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by being responsible
for each other.

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(speaking aboriginal language)

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Our life is intimately connected
with the land that we live on.

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So for us,

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minus the land,

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without access,
without protection of our lands

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and our natural resources,

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we cannot continue to live
as an indigenous people.

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We will cease to exist.

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Uh-huh.

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(music)

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(thunder)

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(rain falling, thunder rumbling)

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He was at the drink,
getting drunk from September

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to today\'s celebration.

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(birds chirping)

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(soft music)

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Most of these things that are
happening in this village

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is mostly youth.

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And most of them
are schoolchildren.

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See, today, if they were to hit
that boy one more time,

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that boy dead last night.
They nearly killed my son.

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Clean my trail. He don\'t do it.

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I mean,
this is the joy of a man,

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it\'s not drinking beer.

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The joy of a man
is being on your farm,

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feel happy, do some work,
move around.

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But they don\'t want it.

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Not one of my sons
can you hear all day chopping.

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School got them tired.

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And surely,
as you get your education,

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you go work for somebody
and you be that person\'s slave.

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(soft music)

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I feel I have my own...
my own freedom,

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my own understanding.

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(music)

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Like going to college.

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Seven?

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(music)

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Bye.

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(distant singing)

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(students):
I am the hope of Belize.

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The hope of my parents
and my teachers.

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The hope of today and tomorrow.

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I live not only for myself,
but for my sisters and brothers.

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I am the hope of Belize.

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I promise to serve Belize
as faithfully as I can.

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- Two over 10,
that\'d be okay as a fraction.

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You will add this again, right?
One plus two plus three?

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- Six.
- Six.

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- My mom insisted

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that her kids
would go to school,

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which is something
she always wanted to do,

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but never got a chance
to do that,

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\'cause she was arranged
to be married.

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Every single one of my sisters
have gone on to college,

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have actually gone out
of this country to college,

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have come back.

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There are two more
living in the States right now.

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It\'s not that I can\'t cook.

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It\'s that, one,
I don\'t like cooking for myself.

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Two, a lot of times,
I don\'t have time to cook.

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And three,
my mom cooks every day

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and invites me to dinner,
so I eat with her every day.

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(phone ringing)
One sec,

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I have the phone ringing.

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Hello?

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As a Mayan woman
who has had the privilege

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of growing up
in our Mayan communities,

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understanding
our traditional ways...

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and also being exposed
to the outside world,

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having a foreign education,

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and understanding
the system of capitalism

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and the concept
of globalization...

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I would be the first to tell you

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that our customary way...

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is not perfect.

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There are a lot
of imperfections,

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including the advancement

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of women\'s rights

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and women\'s participation.

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But we want to be the ones
to define our own development.

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(hip-hop-style music)

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- If anything,
they could call you,

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or something like that,
because, for the moment,

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we don\'t have right now.
- Okay, miss.

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- Oh, yes.

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- I tell Eladio I don\'t know
why I have a lot of kids,

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because I don\'t know
what to do with them.

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The girls, when I tell them
to do something,

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they would do it, but the boys,
they are hard-headed.

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But still, I love them.

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(music)

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(song in aboriginal language)

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(song fading)

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In the past, everybody have...

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a piece like this, you know?

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And when planting day come, men.

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And maybe I would have
at least 14 men one day

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to do this work for me.
Right?

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And that\'s what used to happen
in the past.

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Start to work on their own;

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they don\'t want
any more community.

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Oh, man.

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We start to lose this thing;
people start to work by himself,

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because he don\'t go
to my church and...

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I just know I not get adapted
to religion yet.

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I don\'t know why.

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Uh-huh.

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This is my church here. Uh-huh.

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So my whole idea and dream
for this place

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is just to have a good time

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and leave something
for the future,

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for the land itself,
because maybe one day,

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the children will not think
about trees anymore,

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but at least
I did something to the earth.

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I shared the earth
with this plant.

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So that\'s the great help
I have done for myself

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and for the earth itself.

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Without this, the earth\'s sad,
you know? No root.

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(music)

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I believe
we definitely have resources.

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And once you have resources,
it\'s just a matter of cost,

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to get the know-how,

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to work.

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- A bit busy with some people.

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Okay, then. Bye.

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Okay.
(indistinct reply)

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All right. Thanks.

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(speaking aboriginal language)

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The few jobs we have here,
you really need to be lucky

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to get a job.

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It\'s kind of challenging, right,

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to know that going to school,
when you come out from school,

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you expect to get this
and it\'s not so.

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It\'s this thing about money,
right?

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The food now is changing,

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the way we eat.

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Then, too, is the way we dress.

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We tend to like to see
those people who dress arrogant,

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and we want to be like them.

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Even if I\'m Mayan,
I want to be like Snoop Dogg

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or somebody like that,
then I will definitely change.

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That\'s what money is bringing:
change.

00:45:40.417 --> 00:45:44.876
And luxury, luxury things.
Things you don\'t really need.

00:45:51.417 --> 00:45:54.999
So now
it\'s not about who you are now,

00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:57.876
it\'s what you want to be.

00:46:03.417 --> 00:46:06.958
We have values, yes,
but cash in hand, we don\'t have.

00:46:06.959 --> 00:46:12.417
So we tend to become dependent
on what others make for us.

00:46:21.792 --> 00:46:24.416
(music playing on radio)

00:46:24.417 --> 00:46:27.709
(child shrieking and laughing)
- Whoo-hoo!

00:46:32.125 --> 00:46:34.459
- My first son...

00:46:34.959 --> 00:46:39.417
I really want him
to be married, because...

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.125
he\'s always lonely and...

00:46:44.417 --> 00:46:47.876
maybe he can do better
for himself.

00:46:54.417 --> 00:46:56.918
(speaking aboriginal language)

00:48:11.375 --> 00:48:13.166
- Looking for a wife, you know,

00:48:13.167 --> 00:48:16.416
that thing
that you have to go through,

00:48:16.417 --> 00:48:18.082
talking to people,

00:48:18.083 --> 00:48:20.124
hearing what they have to say.

00:48:20.125 --> 00:48:24.334
And having patience with them,
you know?

00:49:10.042 --> 00:49:11.124
(music)

00:49:11.125 --> 00:49:14.166
♪ Give me love with no strings ♪

00:49:14.167 --> 00:49:17.583
♪ Give me wisdom
give me wings ♪

00:49:17.584 --> 00:49:19.082
♪ And fly above ♪

00:49:19.083 --> 00:49:23.334
♪ Give me love, give me love ♪

00:49:23.792 --> 00:49:26.208
♪ Give me peace ♪

00:49:26.209 --> 00:49:27.750
♪ To set me free ♪

00:49:27.751 --> 00:49:31.500
♪ Give me love
the world can see ♪

00:49:31.501 --> 00:49:34.374
♪ Give me love, love, love ♪

00:49:34.375 --> 00:49:36.417
♪ Give me love ♪♪

00:49:59.792 --> 00:50:02.125
(speaking aboriginal language)

00:50:02.709 --> 00:50:04.917
- I have to say,
I have lost a lot

00:50:04.918 --> 00:50:07.458
over the years
that I\'ve spent in school.

00:50:07.459 --> 00:50:09.875
I\'ve lost what I would\'ve learnt

00:50:09.876 --> 00:50:11.833
working with my mom
in the house.

00:50:11.834 --> 00:50:15.416
Going to the farm with her
to collect peppers,

00:50:15.417 --> 00:50:19.292
or whatever else
she was going to go do.

00:50:20.417 --> 00:50:23.249
I\'ve lost a lot from my dad,
from my grandmother,

00:50:23.250 --> 00:50:24.666
from people
that I would\'ve spent

00:50:24.667 --> 00:50:27.416
a lot of time with.
Because this is how...

00:50:27.417 --> 00:50:30.417
the traditional knowledge
is passed down.

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.041
I\'ve also lost in the sense
of building...

00:50:44.042 --> 00:50:48.709
a relationship with them,
with, for instance, a Mayan man.

00:50:50.125 --> 00:50:53.416
Even if he has been...

00:50:53.417 --> 00:50:55.958
exposed and educated
like I have,

00:50:55.959 --> 00:50:58.750
he would find it very difficult

00:50:58.751 --> 00:51:01.500
to, for instance,

00:51:01.501 --> 00:51:02.417
marry me.

00:51:02.418 --> 00:51:07.416
And it has a lot to do
with how assertive I\'ve become

00:51:07.417 --> 00:51:09.833
and how comfortable I am to...

00:51:09.834 --> 00:51:10.958
speak out,

00:51:10.959 --> 00:51:14.416
to be nontraditional
in a lot of ways.

00:51:14.417 --> 00:51:17.166
And that could be a loss.

00:51:17.167 --> 00:51:19.959
(soft music)

00:52:15.209 --> 00:52:17.709
(calling out students\' names)

00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:42.918
(music)

00:52:53.834 --> 00:52:55.709
(music)

00:52:58.417 --> 00:53:01.125
(chatting in
aboriginal language)

00:53:06.709 --> 00:53:08.709
- Officially!

00:53:17.209 --> 00:53:21.125
- I think that\'s okay for me.

00:53:21.501 --> 00:53:23.625
I promise her:
\"If you do like 70 or 80,

00:53:23.626 --> 00:53:27.374
then I can send you to school,\"
that\'s what I tell her.

00:53:27.375 --> 00:53:30.416
Looks like she made it.
(laughing)

00:53:30.417 --> 00:53:32.416
- We\'ll see what...

00:53:32.417 --> 00:53:35.166
- I\'m glad about it.

00:53:35.167 --> 00:53:39.208
Yes, maybe
she can become someone.

00:53:39.209 --> 00:53:41.374
- Maybe she can be a nurse,

00:53:41.375 --> 00:53:43.833
or something for her own good.

00:53:43.834 --> 00:53:45.709
(thunder)

00:54:00.167 --> 00:54:01.208
(music)

00:54:01.209 --> 00:54:03.709
(chatting in
aboriginal language)

00:54:10.042 --> 00:54:11.166
- I have a little education,

00:54:11.167 --> 00:54:14.709
so I was trying
to seek something, you know...

00:55:12.417 --> 00:55:15.417
Eye drop. Eye drop, no?

00:55:55.167 --> 00:55:55.501
Yeah.

00:55:55.502 --> 00:55:59.041
I want to have my own farm,
like my father has his own.

00:55:59.042 --> 00:56:03.541
Right? So he\'s helping me
with that one up the river,

00:56:03.542 --> 00:56:05.249
where we\'re going to.

00:56:05.250 --> 00:56:06.374
And I want to push

00:56:06.375 --> 00:56:10.500
most of the work in it,
\'cause I want to own it.

00:56:10.501 --> 00:56:12.417
(music)

00:57:02.542 --> 00:57:05.041
- I don\'t know why...

00:57:05.042 --> 00:57:08.417
He just sprayed this yesterday.

00:57:10.209 --> 00:57:14.416
I don\'t know what kind
of medicine he used,

00:57:14.417 --> 00:57:16.124
he killed the grass completely.

00:57:16.125 --> 00:57:18.918
You could smell the medicine.
(horking)

00:57:19.834 --> 00:57:22.125
(spitting)
(coughing)

00:57:22.542 --> 00:57:25.541
Me, I do this farming
all my life,

00:57:25.542 --> 00:57:30.583
I\'m never going to buy chemicals
and spray on my place.

00:57:30.584 --> 00:57:34.417
I don\'t like them.
I don\'t have the money.

00:57:34.792 --> 00:57:37.625
Some people look
like they don\'t like to see...

00:57:37.626 --> 00:57:41.708
these things;
they want to see dry land.

00:57:41.709 --> 00:57:43.374
See?

00:57:43.375 --> 00:57:47.082
I don\'t know
why they think like that.

00:57:47.083 --> 00:57:51.875
Me, I do worry about coming
back and doing this again.

00:57:51.876 --> 00:57:54.416
But I will never do chemicals.

00:57:54.417 --> 00:57:56.918
I will use my energy.

00:57:57.417 --> 00:57:59.625
This is what
they don\'t like to do.

00:57:59.626 --> 00:58:02.708
They don\'t like
to exercise their body,

00:58:02.709 --> 00:58:06.876
they just like to sshhhh...
and then gone.

00:58:12.751 --> 00:58:16.249
As soon as you see
the black spot,

00:58:16.250 --> 00:58:18.709
inside it\'s not good.

00:58:28.209 --> 00:58:30.918
What kind of sickness is this?

00:58:34.417 --> 00:58:36.417
It shocks me.

00:58:54.375 --> 00:58:56.334
(soft music)

00:59:05.709 --> 00:59:07.709
(dog barking)

00:59:10.918 --> 00:59:13.918
- She is engaged to me.

00:59:15.792 --> 00:59:18.125
Today I am visiting.

01:00:49.417 --> 01:00:51.417
Yeah, so...

01:01:01.417 --> 01:01:03.417
(child laughing)

01:02:00.417 --> 01:02:02.417
(soft music)

01:02:20.751 --> 01:02:22.709
(woman laughing)

01:02:23.083 --> 01:02:25.416
- Beautiful.
- Et on peut y goûter?

01:02:25.417 --> 01:02:28.416
- Good smell?
- Are they ready to eat?

01:02:28.417 --> 01:02:31.000
- Yes.
- Okay.

01:02:36.167 --> 01:02:38.416
- Yes, good morning. Eladio.
- Yes.

01:02:38.417 --> 01:02:40.041
- Yes.
- Bonjour.

01:02:40.042 --> 01:02:43.083
- Eladio. Yes. Good morning.

01:02:53.584 --> 01:02:56.334
These are the miros.

01:03:01.417 --> 01:03:04.416
That\'s how they grow.
(visitors exclaiming)

01:03:04.417 --> 01:03:06.917
So this can be a wider tree.

01:03:06.918 --> 01:03:08.958
So this is cacao, see?

01:03:08.959 --> 01:03:12.958
This is the fruit, see?
I\'m going to show you this one.

01:03:12.959 --> 01:03:14.833
As soon as you see
a yellow part,

01:03:14.834 --> 01:03:18.999
that means the seed is ready.
- Ah. Elle est un peu jaune.

01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:21.208
- So I don\'t want
to use machete,

01:03:21.209 --> 01:03:23.708
because sometimes you can do it
without machete.

01:03:23.709 --> 01:03:26.458
- I don\'t understand
what he\'s doing.

01:03:26.459 --> 01:03:27.417
(indistinct reply)

01:03:27.418 --> 01:03:30.875
Sometimes maybe your machete,
you cut something with it,

01:03:30.876 --> 01:03:33.374
so you need
to use something natural.

01:03:33.375 --> 01:03:36.458
- Yes. Uh-huh. Yes, it\'s nice.
- Uh-huh.

01:03:36.459 --> 01:03:38.416
So this is cacao.
- Yeah, yeah...

01:03:38.417 --> 01:03:44.625
- So it is not harmful, it is...
- And it\'s very nice. Oh, yeah.

01:03:44.626 --> 01:03:48.625
And \"organic,\" that means
you don\'t use chemicals

01:03:48.626 --> 01:03:51.041
against fungus, anything.
- Completely nothing.

01:03:51.042 --> 01:03:54.416
This the only tool I use.
- Yeah, yeah.

01:03:54.417 --> 01:03:57.958
- This is the chemical here.
- Yes, I know.

01:03:57.959 --> 01:04:01.416
- Strictly physical.
That\'s how I make my wine.

01:04:01.417 --> 01:04:03.958
- Ah.
- Chicha.

01:04:03.959 --> 01:04:05.625
(laughter)

01:04:05.626 --> 01:04:07.501
-Salud.

01:04:08.250 --> 01:04:10.166
- Alors?
C\'est comme le vinaigre?

01:04:10.167 --> 01:04:13.124
(whistling)
- Oh, it\'s wonderful.

01:04:13.125 --> 01:04:16.082
Mm...!
- Ferment.

01:04:16.083 --> 01:04:18.082
- Mm...!
- Juice.

01:04:18.083 --> 01:04:21.583
- Oh, it\'s near-champagne.
Ah, yeah. Here, here.

01:04:21.584 --> 01:04:23.416
- I may not be able to walk
after this!

01:04:23.417 --> 01:04:27.958
- People come to Belize
expecting Belize...

01:04:27.959 --> 01:04:29.416
to be...

01:04:29.417 --> 01:04:33.584
something different
from their environment.

01:04:37.501 --> 01:04:39.501
(horn honking)

01:04:44.918 --> 01:04:46.918
(soft music)

01:04:49.375 --> 01:04:51.416
We have been misled...

01:04:51.417 --> 01:04:53.417
by the money.

01:04:53.834 --> 01:04:55.458
Money is everybody\'s problem
right now -

01:04:55.459 --> 01:04:58.124
they don\'t have it,
they don\'t feel good.

01:04:58.125 --> 01:05:01.334
(dog barking)
(church bell tolling)

01:05:03.709 --> 01:05:07.417
(rooster crowing)
(church bell tolling)

01:05:10.584 --> 01:05:13.666
The only way
of getting out of their misery

01:05:13.667 --> 01:05:16.041
is by getting off
that piece of land

01:05:16.042 --> 01:05:20.417
and making that little money
and then, it\'s done.

01:05:38.083 --> 01:05:40.125
(mournful music)

01:06:26.417 --> 01:06:28.417
(mournful music)

01:07:59.417 --> 01:08:01.417
(thunder rumbling)

01:08:10.792 --> 01:08:12.709
(mournful music)

01:08:45.417 --> 01:08:47.417
(music fading)

01:08:48.417 --> 01:08:52.417
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